This is our easy crock pot vegetable beef soup recipe with fresh vegetables that can cook as quickly as 2 hours. A healthy one pot meal, like this Instant Pot beef vegetable soup, with potatoes, tomatoes, green beans and ground beef or sausage is a family favorite meal.
I’m all about my slow cooker! Here is an easy crock pot vegetable beef soup recipe that is easy to throw together. Pair it with a piece of bread or crackers and you have a hearty meal! One of our favorite crockpot recipes.
Like I said, if I can throw it in a crockpot, let it cook all by itself all day, and have it ready with really no effort on my part I’m all about it!! We are a busy family of 5 who all work or go to school. Most of the time there is some activity after school to travel to as well so if there is a meal ready when we get home it saves the day.
All you have to do for prep is brown the ground sausage or beef. If you use a bag of mixed frozen vegetables you don’t even need to slice produce. I don’t know about you but I love slow cooker soup recipes for dinner when it is cold outside. During the Winter I am all about it! Pair it with some rolls or garlic bread and enjoy together.
Soup is a great comfort food meal, especially during the colder months. It’s fairly inexpensive to make, it sticks with you, and kids typically love anything in soup form, at least mine do anyway.
Ingredient Notes
For this easy slow cooker vegetable soup you will need some ground beef, sausage or turkey. I imagine you could use stew meat too like we did with our Crockpot beef barley soup but haven’t tackled that option yet.. I prefer spicy ground sausage from Jimmy dean if I can find it because it adds a little bit of heat and a ton of flavor to it too.
Diced fresh produce like celery, carrots, green beans, corn, onions and potatoes work well but you could also use canned vegetables if that is all you have. Note that out of a can will become really soft so that isn’t my preference.
And to make it into a soup you need more liquid so I use chicken broth or beef stock depending on what I have in the cupboard at the time.
We have a lot of slow cooker vegetable recipes on our site. Why? Because you can make easy side dishes like Crockpot brussel sprouts and soups like these.
Can you use frozen vegetables instead of fresh?
All of the veggies can be fresh, frozen, or canned. This option is nice because sometimes the grocery store has really inexpensive green beans so you might want to pick those up and use fresh, but nothing else looks great so you can get canned or frozen of the other items.
When it comes to using fresh, frozen or canned veggies like Veg-All there is a big difference when it comes to texture. If you don’t like yours super soft then you should go with fresh. That way you can slice them bigger so it won’t break down as quickly and you’ll still have a bit of “bite” to them. Next would be frozen and the softest would be canned for sure.
Does soup taste better in slow cooker?
I mean we think so. Our Crockpot loaded baked potato soup can be made in a pot but it is harder to control the heat and get it super low and steady. Even if you do it needs be stirred along the way so the bottom doesn’t burn. This way it is just hot enough where over time the ingredients get tender and flips to warm when the timing is up.
Crock Pot Vegetable Beef Soup Recipe
Equipment
- 1 slow cooker
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef , or turkey
- 1 small onion, diced
- 2 cans tomatoes, diced petite
- 48 oz chicken broth, or vegetable broth for vegetarian, use more if you want it thinner
- 1 large potato , diced
- 2 large carrots, peeled, sliced into dials (if using canned veggies use 2 drained instead of fresh)
- 2 stalks celery, cut into large bite size chunks
- 2 cup green beans, can use frozen
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 2 ears corn, remove kernels
Instructions
- Slice vegetables, and brown meat on stovetop. If using canned veggies, drain 2 cans and use those instead of fresh or 1 large bag of frozen mixed.
- Add all ingredients into your slow cooker and stir well. Set to low and cook for 6 hours or high for 2.5 hrs and serve!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Other meat and vegetable recipes you’ll love
We love corned beef and cabbage in the crockpot year round. Whole chicken in crockpot is great with potatoes underneath that get tender together
Stovetop Method
You really could cook this on low on your stove top. Just add beef, brown the meat in your pot with some olive oil first. You could use diced chuck roast or hamburger too. All you need is to meld all the flavors together so 30 minutes to 1 hour will do it over medium heat bubbling with a lid on it. On low in your Crock though is more hands off. You just throw it all in and walk away.
How to save leftovers
What is the best way to save leftover soup? We talk about that in this article here. Using souper cubes has been a game changer. You know I hate wasting food so it’s a tip we speak about often.
Here is the entire slow cooker vegetable beef soup recipe below. It includes nutrition information such as calories and saturated fat. Enjoy!
What is the amount of the servings ?
So I just used this recipe for tonight’s dinner, and I had a question with one of the ingredients: Where it says 1 can Tomatoes, is that Whole Tomatoes? Tomato Sauce? I ended up leaving that step out because I wasn’t sure. Sorry if it’s a silly question!
1 can diced tomatoes is what I use.
I recently have retired and like taking my meals to the next level. so I add herbs de Provence to my version of this soup. PS it adds antioxidants with the carrots, tomatoes, and onions. I add broccoli, garlic for more antioxidants.
I’ve never heard of that…what is herbs de Provence like??